Pole Shift is a term used to describe the theory or range of theories used to depict a sudden movement of the outer crust of the earth relative to its axis. The idea was first proposed by Damian Kreichgauer in 1927[513], although at the time he found little support for the concept.
There are a number of variations on the basic concept and a range of suggestions for the date of the last displacement. Generally speaking the mechanism required to cause such a catastrophe is believed to be an impact by a large asteroid or comet. The discovery of huge impact craters around the globe reinforces this possibility.
The suggestion of an Antarctic location for Atlantis, as proposed by Rose and Rand Flem-Ath[062], is totally dependent on a pole shift. The Flem-Aths have interpreted the characteristics of our present icecaps as strong evidence for a number of previous pole shifts. This idea was inspired by the work of Charles Hapgood[369], who was convinced by such evidence as the Piri Reis Mapand other ancient maps that indicated the existence of an Ice Age civilisation now partly covered by the Antarctic icecap.
S.F. Wells was prompted by Flem-Ath’s work to examine the Avebury stone circle to see if there was any evidence of a pole shift there. To his surprise he did
discover at Avebury and at other ancient monuments in the locality clear evidence of a pole change of up to 30° in the past. In 2003, he wrote a paper
outlining his observations(c).
A number of facts are proposed to support the idea of a pole shift. One of the most popular is the extermination of the mammoth, which once again was central to a recent book by Charles Ginenthal, The Extinction of the Mammoth[514], who dates the last pole shift to around 1500 BC. Perhaps the most impressive evidence came from Sweden in November 2009(b) when settlements dated to 9000 BC were discovered in the north of the country in a region that according to accepted theory should have been covered by ice at that time.
Wolter Smit points out that the orientation of some Mayan Temples is apparently out by around 17 degrees from what would be expected. A structural feature at the 4,000 year old temple of Saar in Bahrain is believed to have been used to record the summer solstice is now out by 10 degrees. A further indication that our present knowledge of polar changes may be flawed is highlighted by the fact that on April 15th 136 BC we have a record of an eclipse that completely darkened Babylon that should have had its zone of totality over the Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean. This is a difference of nearly 50 degrees and implies that either the earth has slowed or the polar axis has shifted.
The Hutton Commentaries(a) contain many articles relating to an impending pole shift based on the readings of Edgar Cayce.
In October 2004, Alexander Chechelnitsky, a Russian astrophysicist claimed that Atlantis was located in the Yukon River valley in Alaska[515]. This, he believes, was the result of a pole shift although he admits that scientific evidence is lacking for this theory!
Roberto Solàrion has his own version of Pole Shift, which he calls Polar Axial Displacement (A rose by any other name….).
(a) http://www.huttoncommentaries.com/index.php
(b) http://www.thelocal.se/23546/20091129/
(c) http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/WellsSF1.php?p=2
